Teenage Fever // Jude Bellingham

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Monday, 6th of April | Tiana's pov

"Hey." I said, sitting down next to Emma in our first class of the day, which we shared. I hadn't spoken to her since Friday.

I was aware that I fucked up. I should've texted her. But if we were to clear this up, I wanted to do it in person.

"Hi." She simply said, voice kept as monotone as possible but I recognized some tiredness in it. The reason for that could either be the fact that it was seven thirty on a Monday, or that she was still pissed.

There was a weird silence before I finally dared to speak up. "Can we talk about what happened Friday?"

She sighed, clearly not too thrilled about the topic. Though we both knew that it had to be done.

"I guess."

"Ems I'm sorry for the way I behaved. I shouldn't have let my own frustration get the best of me, because I knew how important the whole thing had been to you." I spoke, gesticulating with my hands to underline my seriousness.

"What I'm not sorry for though is defending myself and Jude defending you. I know that should've been my job, but I just wasn't sure if it would make you uncomfortable or embarrassed." I went on, searching for eye contact but she just kept staring straight forward.

"And I don't know if you want to hear it, or if you care, but I don't think that he's good for you. Maybe he's different when you are alone with him, but when he acts like that around your friends, he's for the streets." I finished my rant, waiting for her reaction.

She eventually granted me her attention by looking at me, her stubborn expression faltering before her eyes finally softened.

I smiled weakly, and she returned it. We would hug but we were surrounded by other students who would most likely make fun of us for being dramatic again.

"I know you two only meant good, but I was just so angry. Angry with myself, and with him, and with how everything went down. What he said to you wasn't okay and I get your reaction— I should've said something too but I just wanted to leave. You were never the problem, it was me and him." She explained, her voice kept as low as mine to not draw attention from outstanding people. "I'm sorry too, the idea was ass."

"Don't be, you had good intentions. It would've been fun without that dick." I joked, making her chuckle. I was glad she still found humor in the situation, if I'd be in her skin I'd probably cry myself to sleep every night. He was her year long crush after all. She probably had a million icks just from Friday alone.

We luckily couldn't stay mad at one another for long; our longest 'fight' where we didn't talk had taken five days. In the end we had just laughed it off, like we always did.

"I had some time to think about it and I've come to the mature decision to ghost him." She sighed dramatically, "It's a shame, but it honestly didn't take long to decide. He's a walking red flag."

"Proud of you, Ems." I said enthusiastically, patting her back in a supportive manner. "Another bitch to add to your list."

"Very true." She raised her pointer finger agreeing, "maybe it's time to actually better my taste in men."

"I'm the best example for that." I joked, making her expression drop before laughing along with me.

"By the way, we're dating now." I mentioned after another short silence, staring at my grown out nails. I seriously needed to get them done again. Especially after Friday night; I've probably worn them down when I scratched them all across his back....

"Huh? You're just casually dropping that on a Monday morning?" She exclaimed with widened eyes, ripping me out of my trance, "we're not talking for another eighty four hours and you can watch me miss your marriage."

"Ha-ha." I mocked, "I've been overthinking for no reason for real. It's kind of embarrassing because he nowadays catches me doing it as well."

"Called it." Emma shrugged, our conversation ending right when the teacher walked in.

It wasn't weird that she wasn't as surprised as I had been when she told me about her and Finn; after all, me and Jude had literally been inseparable since...months. She had probably only counted down the days until someone of us had the balls to put aside our ego.

"What's good, Judy!" I exclaimed, Jude jogging towards me with a annoyed look that he couldn't keep upright when I greeted him with a kiss.

"How'd you get here?" He asked, slightly breathless from the training activities. They had just received a ten minute break, Jude only seeing me after Gio had pointed at me.

"Lighten up, I'm here." I playfully rolled my eyes, making him scoff. "But that guy let me in I don't know, the one who yelled at you in the tunnels."

"Oh, that guy?" He asked surprisedly, stepping out of the way to subtly point at him next to the bench where the rest of the players sat to calm down for a moment.

I nodded. "Yeah he's my coach."

"Oh...that's uh, weird." I diverted my eyes to my feet.

"Why's that weird?" Jude inquired, tilting his head slightly downwards to meet my level.

"He probably thinks I'm like crazily obsessed with you. Like borderline stalker." I shrugged, exaggerating on purpose to mess with him a bit.

"You aren't?"

"No, what makes you think that?" I teased, a grin on my face as I looked up at him with one eye squeezed shut due to the bright sun rays beaming onto my face.

He noticed, moving his body so that he was shielding me from that. It made me smile, I loved how he was always so attentive to the smallest things.

"Hm, I don't know, maybe the way you were begging for me to—" he started but I shut him up by hitting his arm, not so gently this time.

"Quit acting like a fuck boy, it's giving me the ick." I scolded, making him laugh so wholeheartedly that I had to join in.

"Your coach's giving us that look again, maybe you should go." I commented after we had calmed down again, almost worriedly furrowing my brows. "I'm a little scared of him."

He shook his head but pressed a last kiss to my forehead before joining the team again. His coach patted his back, while still staring at me.

Unsure of how to act, I just waved with a small smile. To my surprise, he did the same back to me before walking onto the field to where the players were already waiting for him.

valentines day chapter to feed y'all's delusion🫵
/ I hope the first part of the chapter cleared some things up regarding Emma's behavior in chapter 24 bc there's been some confusion /misunderstanding